Box-lid support



NI. CIANOVICH.

SUPPORT.

, |919- 193372999. Patented Apr. 27, i920.

MIKE CIANOVICI-I, 0F MAYW'OD, ILLINOIS.

BOX-LID SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1920.

Application filed July 11, 1919. Serial No. 310,216.

To all fio/0m t may Concern.'

Be it known that I, MIKE CIANovicH, a native of Croatia, formerly a subject of the Emperor of Austria, residing at Maywood, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new'and useful Improvements in Box-Lid Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in box lid supports particularly adapted for use on cigar boxes for displaying the contents of the latter and to maintain the covers thereof raised and adapted for manual engagement to remove from and replace such boxes in show cases.

The object of the present invention is to provide a box lid support which is very small and compact and sufficiently strong to resist the normal strains and stresses to which it is subjected in lifting the box by engagement of the cover thereof, and which further presents a feature of ductility whereby it may be manually or digitally bent to support the cover at any desired angle relatively to the box.

The invention consists in the features of construction hereinafter described and particularly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating a suitable embodiment of the invention:

Figure l is a perspective view of a cigar box equipped with a lid support constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary detail vertical section on the line 2 2 of F ig. l.

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the box lid support detached from the box and lid.

Referring now to said drawings:

My said device consists of a U-shaped base portion A presenting a vertically disposed recess B in which an end wall of a box is adapted to be received. Said wall will be engaged between the parallel anges C and D. The said flange D is provided along its rear edge with a pair of projections E extending transversally relatively to the same and which project over the mouth of the recess. Said flange D is of greater width than the flange C, the difference of width thereof being substantially that of the thickness of the real wall of the box, the front edges of the flanges C and D being flush with each other. Thus, in mounting the fork formed by said base portion A to cngage `Ythe end wall of the box, the rear edge of thc iiange C will be disposed to oppose and lie in Contact with the inner face of the rear wall of the and thus the projection E of the vflange D will project over the outer face of said r wall or tle rear edge of the end wall of the box engaged in the recess D. The said member A is thus prevented from moving relatively to the end and rear walls of the box in any direction except vertically.

Extending upwardly from the middle portion from the member A and from the rear edge thereof is aiiange or tongue l? which is provided at its upper end with an E -shaped flange G, the free end portion of which extends parallel with the body portion thereof to form a U-shaped recess in which a side edge of the box cover is adapted to be received and engaged. The sai-C tongue F has its outer edge slightly curved as it approaches the member A so as to present a straight edge portion 16 which is offset from the outer face of the iiange D a distance equal substantially to the thickness of the rear wall of the box plus the thickness of the metal of which the flange D is composer so that the'straight edge portion H will be substantially 'flush with the side edge of the cover.

The device is preferably made of a relatively stiff and somewhat elastic metal which will spring to a limited extent without remaining permanently bent but which may be bent at a distance greater than its elastic characteristic will permit to be permanently distorted. Thus the said tongue II may be bent to extend to any desired angle relatively to the rear edge of the flange D and thus support the cover of the box at any desired angle relatively to the bofly thereof. The metal of which the device is composed is7 however, suiiiciently stiff and rigid to enable it to readily withstand the strain or stress to which it is subjected in lifting a full box of cigars by the cover without perceptibl.v yielding under the influence of such weight or without becoming permanently bent from its original shape thereby.

It will be noted that the device is composed of a single piece of metal and that it is very simple and cheaply and easily produced.

While I have shown the preferred embodiment of the invention in the aecompanying drawings, it will be understood, of course, that such embodiment may be changed and varied in details of construction without departing from the invention as delined in the appended claim.

I claim as my invention:

A box-lid support comprising a member having a pair of parallel downwardly eX- tending flanges between which an end wall of a box is adapted to be received, one of said flanges being of a width in excess of the other` flange to an extent substantially equal to the thickness of a wall of the box, said wider flange adapted to engage the outer face of the wall received between said pair of flanges and being equipped along one edge with a projection adapted to engage the outer aee of the rear wall of the box, said projection adapted to coact with the opposed edge of the narrower flange to hold said member against movement longitudinally of the wall engaged thereby, and Ya tongue on said member terminating in a U-shaped element adapted to receive and engage a side edge of the box lid, said tongue having one edge substantially in alinement with the inner face of the narrower liange and the body of said tongue disposed transversely to the same and adapted toV lie in Contact with one face of the lid when the latter is engaged in the U-shaped terminal of said tongue.

MIKE CIANOVICH. 

